Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature cut a California cannabis tax, but not everyone is convinced it’s enough to stabilize the legal market. Social equity operators say the changes don’t do nearly enough to help them.
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Posted inHealth & Wellness
California could require labels on pot products to warn of mental health risks
Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis products labeled to warn consumers of the increased risk of schizophrenia and other disorders associated with heavy use.
Posted inCoast Life
We absolutely don’t need this $300 ‘Nespresso for weed.’ But we kind of want one
The pricey pod-based Beed from an L.A. startup is the joint-rolling party trick that post-pandemic folks deserve.
Posted inCity Life
A passion for baking: It’s 4/20, so one of the 30,000 cookies ‘Big Pete’ makes per day can’t be far away
Santa Cruz-based company Big Pete’s Treats has come a long way from Pete Feurtado’s kitchen on the Westside. Along with the help of son Pete Jr. and daughter Katie, the family business has managed to produce the No. 1 cookie edible in California.
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Careful, cannabis users: Bongs may create more secondhand smoke than cigarettes
Smoking a bong creates concentrations of fine particulate matter four times greater than a cigarette or hookah, the UC Berkeley study found.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Cannabis social equity programs leave many California entrepreneurs demoralized, depleted
The promise of “social equity” has been a key narrative tied to California’s legalized pot industry. So far, efforts have been mired by costly delays.
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California was supposed to clear cannabis convictions. Tens of thousands are still languishing
More than 30,000 Californians are stuck with felonies, misdemeanors and other convictions on their records that should have been wiped “automatically.”
Posted inFood & Drink
‘Nature is like a slow-cooked meal’: Regenerative farming brings cannabis, food crops into soil harmony
With practices centered on growing crops atop mounds filled with wood and plant debris and letting the main crop mingle with all kinds of other plants and natural neighbors, Santa Cruz County’s regenerative farms are focused “on cultivating the best expression of these plants as possible.”
Posted inPolitics & Policy
State authorities destroy 1 million marijuana plants in crackdown on illegal operations
Law enforcement agents destroyed more than 1 million illegally grown marijuana plants this year in an attempt to curb the widespread grows that undercut California’s legal marketplace.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Cannabis for kids: Santa Cruz residents have chance to make children’s fund permanent in Nov. 2 election
Measure A would nearly double the amount flowing from the city’s cannabis business tax to the fund dedicated to childhood development programs, and would insulate it from possible future elimination in a city council vote by writing it into the city charter.